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One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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When the sides were heated, the electrons in the atoms become agitated and emit radiation, which bounces around the container, being continuously absorbed and re-emitted.
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Phthalates, the chemicals that make a PVC container flexible, "can migrate out of the plastic when it's heated, " says Dr. Halden, who has done comprehensive studies on emerging contaminants and plastics for more than a decade.
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